Thursday, March 19, 2009

Twitter4: Pandemics? Global Crises? Global Melts and Other Catastrophes? and More for Thursday, March 19, 2009

Will Twitter be the essential new technology tool to help us predict; Pandemics, Global Melting and flooding, Wildfires/Bushfires, Potential Extinctions, and other Catastrophes? (Too late for the Beddington 2030 Global Crisis Projection, see below...). Is this the "real" usefulness or utility for Twitter? Are these "Twittersentials"?
Global crisis 'to strike by 2030'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7951838.stm

Prof John Beddington

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Beddington

Big melt seen in Antarctic past, and maybe future

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090318/ap_on_sc/sci_antarctica_melt

Predicting The Next Pandemic Via Twitter?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/18/tech/cnettechnews/main4874828.shtml

World economy 'to shrink in 2009'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7952377.stm

New Mexico Abolishes Death Penalty

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/18/national/main4874296.shtml

Poll: Americans fear losing their quality of life

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/19/poll.standard.of.living/index.html

Number Of U.S. Births Breaks Record

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/18/national/main4873969.shtml

Official: US to release data unless harm foreseen

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/obama_freedom_of_information

Fed launches $1.2 trillion bid to revive economy

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29707055/

Food industry safety inspections challenged

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_go_co/salmonella_outbreak

Some AIG bonuses already repaid, says CEO ahead of Congress vote

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/03/18/aig-tax-back.html

The Cost of AIG 'Hysteria'

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/03/the-cost-of-aig.html

How Fed failed to tell Obama of bonuses

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29767653/

Dodd: Administration sought bonus changes

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29771223/

13 firms receiving bailouts owe back taxes

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29773472/

Scientists grow diabetes drug in tobacco plants

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52i047-us-tobacco-medicine/

Interleukin-10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleukin-10

Nicotiana

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotiana

GE sees finance unit profitable in 2009

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52i46a-us-ge-capital/

Dollar slides after US Fed plan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7952319.stm

From Hedge Funds to Pizza: One Man's Fall


http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7111098&page=1

Online game gets real-world banking license

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29760522/

Entropia Universe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropia_Universe

Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority

http://www.fi.se/Default____3.aspx

EU to debate extra stimulus calls

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7952557.stm

U.S. workers on jobless benefits at record high

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52i3qc-us-usa-economy-jobless/

Weekly jobless claims fall more than expected

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29771904/

Oil: Low prices are behind us

http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/18/markets/oil_prices/index.htm?cnn=yes

Foreclosure hunters go in for the kill

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29744491/

What's hot at the pawnshop

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29762007/

FedEx profit tumbles on global slump

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52i3c8-us-fedex/

Big jump in online banking fraud

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7952598.stm

DNA test advances bring more to justice

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7951652.stm

Israel troops admit Gaza abuses

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7952603.stm

Political voice against Taliban killed in Afghan bombing

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/03/19/afghanistan-wrap.html

Dad Mohammad Khan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dad_Mohammad_Khan

North Korea 'holds US reporters'


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7951982.stm

New nationwide strike hits France

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7951949.stm

Thousands in Argentina protest crime

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/19/argentina.crime/index.html

Iranian satellite completes mission: state TV

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52i34p-us-iran-satellite/

Moral dilemma A US Iraq veteran seeks asylum in Germany

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7951403.stm

Army suicides blamed on long deployments
Topple Somali leader - Bin Laden

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7952310.stm

Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Sharif_Sheikh_Ahmed

Milder Atlantic hurricane season predicted

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/03/18/hurricane.forecast/index.html

Lessons From Hurricane Rita Not Practiced During Hurricane Ike

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090313110752.htm

Hurricane Rita

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Rita

Hurricane Ike

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ike

Drought, Urbanization Were Ingredients For Atlanta's Perfect Storm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090311111013.htm

2008 Atlanta Tornado Outbreak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Atlanta_tornado_outbreak

Ozone: New Simulation Shows Consequences Of A World Without Earth's Natural Sunscreen

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319090754.htm

Ozone layer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_layer

Ozone depletion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_layer_depletion

Montreal Protocol
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